Sweden ships jobless to Norway

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The Swedes have a new take on unemployment: if you can't find a job, the Swedes will pay young people to move to near-neighbour Norway.

That, at least, is how the Swedish town of Soderhamn - population 12,000 - is tackling local unemployment, which climbed, nationally, to a record 8.4% in September. Is exporting the unemployed working?%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%

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